I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.

I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my mother, who can be this incredibly wise person, said that it really didn't matter because strangers who read it would never meet me anyway, and people I knew were aware of my secrets.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.